H-Alpha Plane Problems

Hi sorry for the really slow reply! No i havent been able to find a solution to this problem, however for the purpose of my paper i think its enought that i write that there has been issues with this classifcaiton. Thanks and good luck, let me know if you find a solution

William

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@ABraun

ESA seem to think its doable with duel pol, at least with HH/HV:

On this topic, the “polarimetric parameters” method has these wonderful indices:
[] Pedestal Height
[] Radar vegetation Index
[] Canopy structure index
[] Volume scattering index
[] Biomass Index
[] Co-pol HH/VV Ratio

But they are only available to quad pol, so practically useless to S1.
I would be very interested to know if anyone has found duel pol solutions to creating any of these indices

your experience is very useful for me ,thanks .

if you have got the method ,please share it , thanks

technically, you can derive entropy and alpha, yes. But the results are not very useful, especially for cross polarization. It just doesn’t give all the information needed for polarimetry:

Thus, HH-VV SAR is a suitable alternative to full-polarization SAR in certain cases. Meanwhile, the extraction performance of the other two dual-polarization SARs is badly degraded due to the lack of co-polarization. Therefore, HH-HV and HV-VV SARs cannot effectively extract the scattering mechanisms in the H-α plane.

Source: http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/7/6/7447

As you can see, HH-VV works quite fine, but the identification of

  • Z3 = low entropy multiple (dark red)
  • Z4 = mdium entropy surface (cyan)
  • Z5 = medium entropy dipole (blue)
  • Z8 = High entropy dipole (green)

just goes miserably wrong in cross-polarized (HV or VH) modes. You just have to consider that polarimetry needs the information of all four polarizations in order to correctly decompose the different scattering mechanisms within the matrix.

All the parameters you name are found on an empirical base. You can search for dual-pol publications specifically which try to find a way around but as for entropy/alpha decomposition on cross-pol data you have to be careful.

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Thanks @ABraun, my original aim for this, if only roughly, was a classifier using radar that makes use of all the information available in the SLC product.

I have come across this paper which seems promising:
http://tre-altamira.com/uploads/2015_09_Banque_et_al_POLinSAR_Dualpol.pdf

does anyone know if it has been implemented elsewhere?

alright, if you have Sentinel-1 you can calculate the ratio and the dual-pol decomposition in the polarimetry menu. This will give you at least some bands to perform a classification on, that’s true.

I got a different result from yours.I used polsarpro and snap to do H/α decomposition for the same data(sentinel-1 VV VH),and got the nearly same result. A is alpha in figure 1
polSARpro
snap

Hello,my results of H/α decomposition in polsarpro and snap are different(just like tim’s).The alpha-image is inverse.So what’s your procesing steps in polsarpro?

are you using the latest version of SNAP?

Please show screenshots of both plots to illustrate your case.

I use the SNAP 6.0.
And i am sorry that i do not know how to plot h-alpha plane in porsarpro.But i did the h-alpha decomposition in snap and polsarpro,and put the two results into the envi.It is clearly that the values of H are similar,but the values of alpha are opposite.

so i guess the h-alpha images in snap and in polsarpro just like tim’s results.
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Please update to SNAP 7 and try again.

Indeed, ot should rather look like this (supporting value concentrations of Alpha between 10 and 30)


source: Lee 2009: Polarimetric radar imaging

I recently worked with Radarsat-2 data for the new tutorial (SAR Polarimetry and Analyses) and the plane looks alright (please check figure 19)

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But i use sentinel-1A dual pol data .This image your mentioned maybe only applicable to fully polarized data?

Sentinel-1 is dual-polarized. You cannot reliably detect all zones with VV+VH only.

Have you seen this post?

yes,i saw this.
So if i use the same sentinel-1A data, do h-alpha dualpol decomposition in snap and polsarpro respectively,and the results are opposite like this:
snap:
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polsarpro:
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You think this result in polsarpro might be more reliable?

Please first try with SNAP version 7 and share the result.

Most of the values should indeed be in the lower part of the plane

thank you !I will try snap 7.0.

Dear Tim and @lveci ,

Hope you are well.

I wondered if you could kindly help me with the colour scheme regarding to the H-a-Alpha plot?

I have tried to google for some instructions/mannuals, but unable to find out specification on the colour representation on plot in SNAP.

Thank you for your time!

Regards,
Izzy

Could you please give an example what information you search for? You can upload screenshots for illustration.

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